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I have started two projects on sourceforge. One was on behalf of my former employer and we released the source code of the whole system under the Jabber PL. The project is still there, but neither I nor my employer is still maintaining it. You could add it to the "Project Cementery" of sourceforge (if they had one).
The second one was just registered a week ago. I have not yet released any files on sourceforge but have done so on my web site. Actually I opened the project just to have a mailing-list.
I spend almost two hours a day in this project, with almost five hours a day on weekends and on vacation. I have even asked for vacations at work just to get more time on the project. It's an open source project, but, even if a would like to have contributors I still have none.
So why do I do it? well thanks to it i just bought my new TV, freezer, laundry machine, DVD and PC. I give my project away for free, but charge for courses, documentation and solutions based on the system. As for today I have only had local customers, but I only hit the web last week.
As for the wife and kids... well they all are way too happy with the new items at home, you know.
So they support me, I spend some time on my laptop and we all get new toys. Thanks to the LGPL (which is the license of my project and some tools I use within it).
Maybe this is kind of offtopic, but wanted to share it.
The only other option is use something like wxWindows which tries to present a single API that is platform independent but will use native widgets, though this approach has it own problems
I believe this is the most logical option. If you are writing a GUI app then you should use as first option the OS native widgets. If you are writing a multi-os GUI app then use a wrapper for the GUI. Thats the magic about Object Oriented Programming.
Why leave the wxWindows option last? there are other projects like this one, even they could have done something like this instead of creating their own set of widgets and would be a lot easier and nicer.
I dream of the day when us Open Source developers start coding thinking on the user, and not thinking in "ooh, I can do this the easy way or I can do it the hard way, I'll do it the hard way so everyone knows I can".
The link provided less info than any usual Ask Slashdot...
Anyways, I have a Fujitsu-Siemens C Series laptop bought in Germany a year and a half ago (Celeron 450 Mhz, 192 MB RAM). I still use it as my main computer at home and work running only Linux. I have installed almost every flavor of linux and works perfectly, but lately have only used Mandrake: easy install and autodetects everything, from sound card to video, modem and ethernet card.
Even if it is almost two years old it works like the first day with Mandrake 8.1, KDE 3.0 and Forte & Eclipse (and i have dropped it to the floor twice). I even run JBoss in the background while working with Eorte or Eclipse and it runs perfect. No slowdown. If I were a XP or 2000 user this machine would have gone the trash way a long time ago. God bless linux.
I Must recommend this laptop as one of the bests I have seen, and when I buy a new one next month I'm gonna get a Fujitsu-Siemens.
We all know electric cars have been made in the past and have had no success, but we cannot stop there. There _is_ an environmental problem with normal cars, and any step towards solving it should be supported by anyone who cares about it.
If any car which addresses this problem hits the mainstream (all electric cars are really expensive) I will be buying it, as will be anyone who is worried about our environment. I really dont care if it only gets to 150 Km/h, that's enough for myself, and should be for anybody. Which draws to another issue: why if almost everywhere there's a speed limit, any car you buy can double that speed?
I'll stick with any environmental car that meets my needs, and I can assure you my days will be happier knowing I'm no longer part of the problem. I'm pretty sure there is a _lot_ of people like this out there.
I'm not saying that there's no room for innovation in car design, but there's a reason cars are the way they are
That's funny. That's exactcly what the loosers of history have said of new inventions. Take Xerox and the mouse, or replace "car" with "computer" and you will have the statements of all the people who thought the iMac would be a failure.
I thinks this is the step needed in the right direction. Oil companies my ass, even as I live in a country which bases it's whole economy on oil I'm waiting this to succeed. Mass produce this and you will have me at least dreaming on getting it.
The issue is that after they retracted last year one member of the lab was found to have forged the results. The news here is the misconduct, not the fact that the elements doesn't exist.
Dont underestimate the power of OS. If (and only if) OpenGL acceleration is to dissapear from cards I can bet that within a year we will have Direct3D acceleration in linux. Be it legal or not, that's another matter, but we will have it, along with YAML*.
Because it's funny that the parent was moderated as funny, just as it's even more funny that your response to the funny moderation was in turn moderated as funny, and that's pretty funny!
What the crap??? you were moderated as Funny too !!! Now it's time for JonKatz to post to this thread, he could get some mod points for himself !!!
There's an RPM version of apt-get at freshrpms.net [freshrpms.net]. It's for Redhat but I don't see why it wouldn't work for Mandrake.
That's exactly what we shouldn't be doing. Is the RPM package/dependencies list available to the apt packages? is the apt packages list availabe to RPM? Do they use the same notations? Ah, I see, making a RPM version of apt-get solves the problem, because we need more front-ends that hide a poor designed system.
We need to stop for a second and rethink a lot of things, and among them is package distribution for linux. No matter which distribution we use or we make, this is a issue that is comming back to us right now, and if we don't do anything it will get a lot worse in the future.
We Linux users know there is a problem with the current linux distributions. It's not only an interoperability problem, but a core one. We have came to a point where we knew we were going to get to, but we haven't tought of a solution because we were making linux ready for the mainstream. Now is the time to solve this, UnitedLinux is a start, but, as many of you, I dont like the approach they took.
We all know all the problems with RPM based distros, compatibility between them breaks a lot, and, even if you should have only one RPM for any distro, when we go to download an application we get a RH6.X.rpm, RH7.rpm, MDK8.rpm, MKD8.1.rpm, etc...
I'm a Mandrake user, and I love it, but I have seen apt-get working, and I'm really impressed. I think apt-get is the right direction for a real package management tool for all distros. This is the direction package managment under Linux should be taking, and not creating commercial standards without atacking the core of the problem nor creating apt-like solutions or apt-like-frontends for rpm based solutions.
Conclution: LSB + apt-get should be mandatory to be able to call anything a Linux distribution. I know a lot of us would kill for apt-get to be the default package manager in all distributions.
"Reminds me of the lunar base I designed when I was about 9 years old for a school project." Sorry, Hemos, but I don't think that the ESA is going to tackle this project with popsicle sticks, styrofoam cups, cardboard paper towel rolls, and that box that you later used to bury your pet hamster in.
But I bet Hemo's model didn't have any cm/inches issue...
So, no matter how many chewing gum it had, it would have worked better than the NASA funded one
It is a fact. I have helped almost all my family (no geeks in there) migrate from Windows + MSOffice to Linux + OpenOffice with no side effects. If you install a nice system, and add the OpenOffice icon to the KDE desktop, you are done.
How many times does your mom install a new printer? even when she had Windows and she got a new LaserJet she called me!. We all know all the people and institutions that are migrating towards Linux and OO, its just a matter of time to see it as a mainstream.
On the other hand, it would come handy if the WalMart Mandrake PCs come with StarOffice preinstalled and with a HUGE icon in the middle of the desktop for all users.
I believe this is the same big question people were asking just before cell phones hit the market. There is a big chance you dont see an actual need for this, but I'll just give it a year after it hits the streets, and nobody will know how they lived without it.
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I have to recommend Forte for Java (now Sun ONE IDE). The modularity is great, you can find a lot of plugins or modules around the web, along with source code.
I wrote a simple UML-like modelling tool in one or two days (spare time) and the integration is smooth, plus you get a simple and robust language for your projects: Java.
You absolutely need a filter. If you don't use one no matter how you set up yor camcorder, you are goung to get a CCD "paté". Find any filter, you dont necesarily need to buy one, but if you love your cam i recommend you get anything.
Even an adapted filter from another model will do the trick, but don't go the un-filtered...
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I have started two projects on sourceforge. One was on behalf of my former employer and we released the source code of the whole system under the Jabber PL. The project is still there, but neither I nor my employer is still maintaining it. You could add it to the "Project Cementery" of sourceforge (if they had one).
... well they all are way too happy with the new items at home, you know.
The second one was just registered a week ago. I have not yet released any files on sourceforge but have done so on my web site. Actually I opened the project just to have a mailing-list.
I spend almost two hours a day in this project, with almost five hours a day on weekends and on vacation. I have even asked for vacations at work just to get more time on the project. It's an open source project, but, even if a would like to have contributors I still have none.
So why do I do it? well thanks to it i just bought my new TV, freezer, laundry machine, DVD and PC. I give my project away for free, but charge for courses, documentation and solutions based on the system. As for today I have only had local customers, but I only hit the web last week.
As for the wife and kids
So they support me, I spend some time on my laptop and we all get new toys. Thanks to the LGPL (which is the license of my project and some tools I use within it).
Maybe this is kind of offtopic, but wanted to share it.
They make fish in factories now?
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I believe they mean factories ran by fish
A computer that can reside in my crotch!
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Are you referring to the "keep the computer cool" part?
If so, then yes, we have a winner
I just checked and found this on the BMRT home:
... it's a very sad thing to find this out ...
To our valued Customers:
You have probably seen the latest news announcing the acquisition of Exluna by NVIDIA and the settlement between Exluna and Pixar.
BMRT(TM) will no longer be distributed by Exluna or NVIDIA
also, there is a link to the settlement between Pixar and Exluna:
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-945553.html
I use BMRT on a daily basis at home
The only other option is use something like wxWindows which tries to present a single API that is platform independent but will use native widgets, though this approach has it own problems
I believe this is the most logical option. If you are writing a GUI app then you should use as first option the OS native widgets. If you are writing a multi-os GUI app then use a wrapper for the GUI. Thats the magic about Object Oriented Programming.
Why leave the wxWindows option last? there are other projects like this one, even they could have done something like this instead of creating their own set of widgets and would be a lot easier and nicer.
I dream of the day when us Open Source developers start coding thinking on the user, and not thinking in "ooh, I can do this the easy way or I can do it the hard way, I'll do it the hard way so everyone knows I can".
You forgot disposable wifes
kinda like /. editors.... /. posters...
or
The link provided less info than any usual Ask Slashdot ...
Anyways, I have a Fujitsu-Siemens C Series laptop bought in Germany a year and a half ago (Celeron 450 Mhz, 192 MB RAM). I still use it as my main computer at home and work running only Linux. I have installed almost every flavor of linux and works perfectly, but lately have only used Mandrake: easy install and autodetects everything, from sound card to video, modem and ethernet card.
Even if it is almost two years old it works like the first day with Mandrake 8.1, KDE 3.0 and Forte & Eclipse (and i have dropped it to the floor twice). I even run JBoss in the background while working with Eorte or Eclipse and it runs perfect. No slowdown. If I were a XP or 2000 user this machine would have gone the trash way a long time ago. God bless linux.
I Must recommend this laptop as one of the bests I have seen, and when I buy a new one next month I'm gonna get a Fujitsu-Siemens.
Actually, in an episode of Twilight Zone Humprey Bogart (don't know if it's spelled correcty) played the main part, completely SFX.
Why does the new car has to look like the old ones? This is a new step in automotive history, they have green light for the design.
Did Ford make his first car to look like a horse? Nope
We all know electric cars have been made in the past and have had no success, but we cannot stop there. There _is_ an environmental problem with normal cars, and any step towards solving it should be supported by anyone who cares about it.
If any car which addresses this problem hits the mainstream (all electric cars are really expensive) I will be buying it, as will be anyone who is worried about our environment. I really dont care if it only gets to 150 Km/h, that's enough for myself, and should be for anybody. Which draws to another issue: why if almost everywhere there's a speed limit, any car you buy can double that speed?
I'll stick with any environmental car that meets my needs, and I can assure you my days will be happier knowing I'm no longer part of the problem. I'm pretty sure there is a _lot_ of people like this out there.
I'm not saying that there's no room for innovation in car design, but there's a reason cars are the way they are
That's funny. That's exactcly what the loosers of history have said of new inventions. Take Xerox and the mouse, or replace "car" with "computer" and you will have the statements of all the people who thought the iMac would be a failure.
I thinks this is the step needed in the right direction. Oil companies my ass, even as I live in a country which bases it's whole economy on oil I'm waiting this to succeed. Mass produce this and you will have me at least dreaming on getting it.
The issue is that after they retracted last year one member of the lab was found to have forged the results. The news here is the misconduct, not the fact that the elements doesn't exist.
hell, that might kill Linux.
Dont underestimate the power of OS. If (and only if) OpenGL acceleration is to dissapear from cards I can bet that within a year we will have Direct3D acceleration in linux. Be it legal or not, that's another matter, but we will have it, along with YAML*.
* Yet Another Microsoft Lawsuit
Because it's funny that the parent was moderated as funny, just as it's even more funny that your response to the funny moderation was in turn moderated as funny, and that's pretty funny!
What the crap??? you were moderated as Funny too !!! Now it's time for JonKatz to post to this thread, he could get some mod points for himself !!!
That e-mail proves the meeting has acomplished one of its goals. Thanks to H2K2 AT&T is being more careful with the private info.
Isn't that what we all want? At least that's the reason why I support those kind of things.
There's an RPM version of apt-get at freshrpms.net [freshrpms.net]. It's for Redhat but I don't see why it wouldn't work for Mandrake.
That's exactly what we shouldn't be doing. Is the RPM package/dependencies list available to the apt packages? is the apt packages list availabe to RPM? Do they use the same notations? Ah, I see, making a RPM version of apt-get solves the problem, because we need more front-ends that hide a poor designed system.
We need to stop for a second and rethink a lot of things, and among them is package distribution for linux. No matter which distribution we use or we make, this is a issue that is comming back to us right now, and if we don't do anything it will get a lot worse in the future.
We Linux users know there is a problem with the current linux distributions. It's not only an interoperability problem, but a core one. We have came to a point where we knew we were going to get to, but we haven't tought of a solution because we were making linux ready for the mainstream. Now is the time to solve this, UnitedLinux is a start, but, as many of you, I dont like the approach they took.
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We all know all the problems with RPM based distros, compatibility between them breaks a lot, and, even if you should have only one RPM for any distro, when we go to download an application we get a RH6.X.rpm, RH7.rpm, MDK8.rpm, MKD8.1.rpm, etc
I'm a Mandrake user, and I love it, but I have seen apt-get working, and I'm really impressed. I think apt-get is the right direction for a real package management tool for all distros. This is the direction package managment under Linux should be taking, and not creating commercial standards without atacking the core of the problem nor creating apt-like solutions or apt-like-frontends for rpm based solutions.
Conclution: LSB + apt-get should be mandatory to be able to call anything a Linux distribution. I know a lot of us would kill for apt-get to be the default package manager in all distributions.
Great games dont need great graphics, they need great playability. Take Monkey Island, KSirtet, Sokoban and Supaplex.
Thanks for telling everybody the movie has a happy end ... geez
"Reminds me of the lunar base I designed when I was about 9 years old for a school project."
Sorry, Hemos, but I don't think that the ESA is going to tackle this project with popsicle sticks, styrofoam cups, cardboard paper towel rolls, and that box that you later used to bury your pet hamster in.
But I bet Hemo's model didn't have any cm/inches issue
So, no matter how many chewing gum it had, it would have worked better than the NASA funded one
It is a fact. I have helped almost all my family (no geeks in there) migrate from Windows + MSOffice to Linux + OpenOffice with no side effects. If you install a nice system, and add the OpenOffice icon to the KDE desktop, you are done.
How many times does your mom install a new printer? even when she had Windows and she got a new LaserJet she called me!. We all know all the people and institutions that are migrating towards Linux and OO, its just a matter of time to see it as a mainstream.
On the other hand, it would come handy if the WalMart Mandrake PCs come with StarOffice preinstalled and with a HUGE icon in the middle of the desktop for all users.
I believe this is the same big question people were asking just before cell phones hit the market. There is a big chance you dont see an actual need for this, but I'll just give it a year after it hits the streets, and nobody will know how they lived without it.
I have to recommend Forte for Java (now Sun ONE IDE). The modularity is great, you can find a lot of plugins or modules around the web, along with source code.
I wrote a simple UML-like modelling tool in one or two days (spare time) and the integration is smooth, plus you get a simple and robust language for your projects: Java.
You absolutely need a filter. If you don't use one no matter how you set up yor camcorder, you are goung to get a CCD "paté". Find any filter, you dont necesarily need to buy one, but if you love your cam i recommend you get anything.
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Even an adapted filter from another model will do the trick, but don't go the un-filtered